AKRISONER

I’m running a roypow (older epoch) it’s frigging top notch

I think you’re typically only protected by a warranty when dealing with batteries. Hence your play that gamble of buying from the likes of an impulse or Dakota to get their 10 year warranty, or you buy off of Amazon for half the price and hope you don’t get fried.

i mean...I think theres a possibility that you just encountered a bad battery? The cheapo stuff on amazon is not immune to issues. I have heard of instances where people have drawn their lithiums down too much and they basically got stuck in a "protect mode" and will never turn on again. Some manufacturers are known for having a better Battery management system which will automatically stop the battery from going lower than it should. Im still asking why you want to troll for musky using a trolling motor. Its very hard on equipment while idling your outboard is about as safe as you can be.

Care to share which brand is giving you problems?

check your power cable, running a trolling motor on high for 45 minutes will generate a huge amount of heat through the whole system. Any point of resistance at all in your cables will be a very dangerous spot to create fire in your boat. Most specifically if you are using a minkotta plug, ask me how i know, i once had a fire in my boat from running my trolling motor on high for about 15 minutes, the minkotta plug had vibrated and caused the guage of the wire at the connector to reduce, it became a hot spot and an electrical fire started. Its worse on a 12 volt troller, but still not ideal. Those terrova's seemingly have a shut off of their own even if your breaker/fuse doesnt trip. Just out of curiousity, if youre trolling musky, why wouldnt you use your outboard to troll? thats a hell of a work out on your trolling motor and battery. Musky like high speed trolling, and if you wanna slow down throw a bucket or other piece of material tied to a rope off of your boat to create a wind sock.

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Make sure you compare the price between them and a nautilus from CT. the quality of the naultilus AGMs are higher due to who manufactures them.

yup, a group 24 is a bit small especially for a lead acid to be running electronics off of all day plus turn your motor over. Lead acid batteries really really do not like being discharged below 50%, and when you completely kill them dead it damages them very quickly. So yes, if you have totally cooked that battery twice and its 2 years old, its pooched unfortunately at least it was a cheapy! as i said earlier, just from running my trolling motor batteries into the ground, I was running 2x 100 amp hour nautilus AGM's and fried them in 3 seasons. They handle deep discharges better than lead acid but still get tired. Lithiums are almost impervious to discharge, the chemisty is different so they dont mind operating at 60% discharge, in fact they recommend storing lithiums at 60% - 70% charge, they actually dont like being fully charged! crazy stuff.

few things here and Ill just try lay out the "rules" of boat rigging 1. Your trolling motor batteries are for your trolling motor exclusively. More importantly, with brushed trolling motors, you absolutely do not want to be running your electronics off of those batteries, you will encounter significant interference as well as massive voltage fluctuations when running your trolling motor at high speed. Now have people done it, especially in very small boats where they only have 1 battery...yes, but its 2025, 30 amp hour lithiums that will easily run a 10 inch screen plus a livescope for an entire day are on amazon for $160, enough said. - DONT RUN ELECTRONICS ON A TROLLING MOTOR BATTERY. 2. Your screen is shutting off, meaning your starting battery is experiencing such a significant voltage drop during start up that its shutting down your helix. Your reading 10.8v on the unit during regular operation, thats extremely low. Your starting battery is tired. While voltage can be impacted by a variety of factors, including line loss, poor connections and under guaging your power cable, 10.8 is so low that it would imply that you have a battery that is going bad. your 12v battery, is it flooded lead acid? Have you topped it up with distilled water lately? How old is it actually? Do you ensure that you are charging it immediately after every use? For reference I am running my electronics off of a designated group 31AGM I run 3 10 inch garmins plus livescope and at start up I will have 12.3 volts reading at the console and due to line loss from the front of the boat from the very back I am typically around 12.0 and 12.1 on my two front garmins. Thats on a battery thats getting pretty tired even and is now 5 years old and been abused relentlessly with long tournament days. I even had to throw in an ACR into the mix to try get some juice back to my screens on those real long tournament pre fishing days. I wasnt making it through a day anymore. Hell, I cooked my 2 group 31 agm's that were running my trolling motor in 2.5 seasons, i limped them through the end of the year last year and it was not good! TOO LONG DIDNT READ, GET A CHEAP LITHIUM FOR YOUR ELECTRONICS AND BE DONE WITH IT!

anyone else experiencing this? very frustrating, i was just writing a lengthy reply and it crashed the site again and threw up a pop up that said it was "scanning" lost all of the writing i had done.

when i got my new motor, it made logical sense to add NMEA and for yamaha it was only about $350 to have everything monitored right through my garmin unit at my console. I wouldnt change it for a thing. Coolest thing is to be able to monitor Water pressure, RPM, GPS speed and trim percentage all right on the same screen as my chart in full screen.

might need to burp the system a bit. Plenty of videos online on how to do this, but essentially all you do is lift the motor, open the valve and then close it to build pressure up. Hopefully one of your ram's isnt leaking, the gaskets in those can fail and make a bad seal.

hard winter this year especially in the less open areas, we had a ton of ice and a ton of snow and then a cold wet spring. Water temperatures are weeks behind normal, hence the weedgrowth is too. We had snow still in the bush on easter this year, thats a major contrast to previous years. Heck, the water was legimately 35 degrees on May 5th this year up in Parry sound...no weeds growing in that!

that may 24 weekend had things heating up and then then temperature absolutely plummeted again, almost like a spring reset. I saw some temps get into the 50's then we had 3 consecutive days where it was windy, raining and a high of 8 degrees, I was out fishing lakers and the water was 46! this was 2 weeks ago! I caught a smallmouth out of 45 fow hanging with the laketrout. (yes im aware of how screwed up I am using F and C in the same sentence, but thats how i operate lol, i couldnt tell you what temperature C correlates to anything fishing wise, aside from the fact that when the water is 4C in the fall, shes about to lock up and when its 0 you might be able to walk on it lol!) I personally did not see one sign of new weed growth anywhere this weekend. even in 1fow the pencil reeds were rotten with no signs of anything.

Just did this on my old man’s 150 Yamaha, took two hours to finally get the damn lower back in. I first realized that the shifter had somehow turned…I still don’t know how? Anyways was able to turn the shifter back to neutral and then grease the heck out of all of the connection points and it finally went back In but it took my dad with a flashlight trying to align the connection points while I pushed to get the damn thing back in.

Wait…no more loony toons ???

actually toning it back this year, but hoping to do more stuff now that I have a motor (blew mine end of june and didnt have a motor till september) Ill be hopping all over the province fishing NGTA derbies, i encourage anyone thats thinking of dabbling in tournament bass fishing, but wants to learn/do it at a low price to try it out, boater or not reach out. We have a blast, good group of guys and no drama.

you got very unlucky, the lake was on fire on May 31st and then that heat up last week brought the water temperatures up 8 degrees over the course of 4 days and it shut everything right down. You could see the change in the lake, I went from catching laketrout up relatively shallow and OOS smallmouth that were still staging in 45 fow to them being right up in the pencil reeds roaming waiting for the girlies to arrive. The pike had lock jaw, theyd follow and not commit and were seemingly out of sorts. Even fished some deeper older cabbage beds where the weed was still standing and not a sniff. Not a skiff of new vegetation growth anywhere yet. We have finally arrived at the spring/summer transition, water temperatures are finally catching up and it has the fish on the move. I think this years bass opener is going to be one for the books if we can keep it from getting too too hot before the 21st and this weekend's upcoming "cool" forecast seems to have things dialed in on keeping that water cold. Considering the fish hadnt even started spawning yet this weekend theres going to a be a heck of a lot of fish up shallow in less than 2 weeks. What a friggin incredible contrast to last year where I was fishing May 4th and there were smallmouth guarding beds everywhere. I didn spot a single bed this weekend, just kept running into the damn things when they went ballistic on a big 8 inch magdraft. hooked and quickly released 1 big ol girl that as soon as i quickly released her had two males nipping at her butt and she cruised away. Clearly not on her way to the bed, just out roaming around looking for boyfriends.

just run 14lb fluro as a lead, it takes a real big pike typically to blow that up. Fish arent that shy typically. Make sure you re-tie if the pike bangs up your line bad.

Thank god they've found a loophole in the bureaucracy and corn lobby job set out to kill those of us with boats and snowmobiles. The inherent nature of us with boats purchasing premium fuel shows a demand for specialized fuels in a limited capacity, the fact that the government is trying to outlaw this...dont even get me started. Ill keep my thoughts to myself to avoid getting this thread closed.

seems like the natives have figured this out again. Theyve been advertising ethanol free premium at wolf energy now for a couple of seasons. Ive been using it in my boats the last couple of years. Glad its back! Although not as big of a deal now that I am no longer running a 2 stroke.

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i dont think you will have issues with that 7 moving on a larger ball mount. For a 9+ inch screen it becomes an issue for sure. I ran a 7 on a ram mount for a few years and it wasnt too bad those screens arent very heavy. I was running a 10 on the biggest ram mount i possibly could and unfortunately it didnt work.

14, in PAB the only areas considered 15 are above rapids or no fishing zones that includes the shawanaga river.

guys, if you're targeting musky, please equip yourself with a proper landing net, jaw spreaders and a good set of pliers...a good set of knipex bolt cutters also helps. unhook your fish in the water in the landing net. If youre taking a photo, get your camera ready, have the fish already unhooked, grab the fish take your photo and put it back. Most obvious of all, dont fish out of season like these bozos.